Darlene
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At a time when smoking legal tobacco products is becoming more restrictive they want to make it legal to inhale a noxious weed that makes you stupid as well as gives you lung cancer.
Interestingly enough, studies have been done by several medical groups concerning this very issue.
Know what they found? If you smoked cigarettes only, you were 21 times more likely to get lung cancer than a person who didn't smoke at all.
If you smoked cannabis only, you were 0.93 to 0.75 percent as likely to develop lung cancer than someone who didn't smoke at all.
It only takes common sense to realize the more smoke of any kind you inhale on a regular basis, the greater the chance of lung cancer, instead of relying on a single study.
Whether you support marijuana or not, it does not make sense to downplay the health effects.
Heavy pot smoking boosts lung cancer risk six-fold
Fact Sheet - MARIJUANA
Heavy marijuana smoking may double risk of lung cancer, Canadian study finds | National Post
Relatively heavy smoking of marijuana may as much as double the risk of someone contracting lung cancer, suggests a new, Canadian-led study that adds nuance to the debates over medical marijuana and outright legalization.
August 18, 1998
WASHINGTON (CNN)-- In the first study of its kind, researchers found that smokers of marijuana and crack cocaine show the same kinds of precancerous conditions caused by smoking tobacco. ...
Dr. Sanford Barsky, co-author of the study and a member of the University of California, Los Angeles' Jonnson Comprehensive Cancer Center, said he was not surprised by the findings. He said any substance that is inhaled, regardless of chemical makeup, releases carcinogens into the lungs and throat.
CNN - Study finds smoking marijuana and cocaine can cause cancer
Also, pot is usually smoked without a filter giving the full impact of the smoke on the lungs, while holding it in makes the impact still greater.
The possibility of getting lung cancer only comes from smoking marijuana. There are much healthier ways of ingesting marijuana (vaporize, edibles, oil, etc). Marijuana itself is not the culprit of lung cancer, just inhaling the carcinogens from burnt plant matter when you light it on fire to smoke it.